https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJIOvgnJdrA h

Holy crap lions, this is over 15 years old… my favourite Pet Shop Boys single of all time, ‘Love etc.’

#Bangerz #SaturdayNight

I picked ‘#Kylie says to Jason’ by #TheKLF for this week’s #MusicMonday Queen’s Book Asylum post. I bet this is the first appearance of the word ‘Kylie’ on the blog.

https://queensbookasylum.com/2024/03/04/music-monday-kylie-said-to-jason-by-the-klf/

#bangerz #classicalmusic #youdidntknowthisoneexisteddidyou

If you know what ‘The Manual’ by The KLF is, you might know or not that they took ‘Left to my own devices’ by #PetShopBoys as a template and failed to chart. Later, PSB used ‘The Manual’ (knowingly?) for ‘Go West’ and that one did okay.

#bangerz

I have no idea *why* ‘Shake Your Head’ by Was Not Was and Kim Basinger exists, but the world is better for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF86IyrxptU

(The original demo had Madonna on vocals, but Kim Basinger was chosen as the better singer. As her surname suggests.)

I am currently obsessed with ‘Yes, And?’ by #ArianaGrande and I have no regrets. My favourite 1990s #house track since ‘1991’ by #AzaeliaBanks. Released in 2012.

#bangerz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6txyhHFG4

#bangerz

Probably the only song in German which I can sing (‘sing’) from the beginning to the end.

‘Arbeitsgeld’ by Nachlader:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aYdTWz7NSI

Ich habe kein Geld, habe kein Geld. Habe keine Arbeit, habe keine Geld. Habe keine Arbeit. Möchte, möchte keine Arbeit, möchte, möchte nur Geld. Möchte Geld ohne Arbeit. Arbeit ist doof…

#bangerz

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ has now spent four consecutive weeks at UK #2. This must be so frustrating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6pY

#1 remains ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan and yes, I’ve played the album a few times, but I still can’t recall the title track. It’s very ‘album filler.’ How it’s been #1 for 2039 weeks is beyond me. (Mind, Ed Sheeran is also beyond me…)

#bangerz (well, using a very wide definition of the word) – Opus One orchestra performing the entirety of #MikeOldfield's #TubularBells for its 50th anniversary.

(Trivia: when Oldfield handed #RichardBranson the demo, which was basically side A of the album, it was called 'Opus One'.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wv3oDeO3Mo

#bangerz of #2023 – NUMBER ONE:

55 (fifty-five) years since their first release. Combined age of the duo: 153. Ideas: endless. Song: flawless. Album: (nearly) flawless. Video: flawless. #CateBlanchett: flawless.

'The Girl is Crying in Her Latte' by #Sparks, from their 25th (you've read this right) album of the same title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAxPhxADo0

So many people are crying in their latte!!! (So. Many. People. Should hear this gem.)